Reese v. Nelson’s Empirical Analysis
598 F.2d 822 · 1979
Citation profile
6 federal appellate · 1 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 18 later decisions — most recently June 2010
6 federal appellate · 1 district ·
Later decisions citing this case, by decade. The current decade is in progress, and our corpus holds fewer opinions from the most recent years, so the latest bars are undercounted — not a real decline.
Relationships
Relies on Scheuer v. Rhodes · Imbler v. Pachtman · Wood v. Strickland · O'Connor v. Donaldson · Procunier v. Navarette
Most-quoted passages
The sentences later courts lift from this opinion, ranked by how many decisions quote each — the parts of the opinion doing the work. These counts are smaller than the citation total above because most of the 18 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Although as a general proposition, the question of the qualified immunity of a [public] official is a matter for factual resolution, it is clear the issue need not always be a jury question. In Procunier v. Navarette , the Supreme Court affirmed the entry of a summary judgment on the basis of a qualified immunity. sf: sfc sj« sfc # In evaluating the good faith defense, moreover, it need not be necessary to determine whether the defendants’ conduct did in fact violate the plaintiff’s constitutional rights or whether the procedures utilized by Lancaster County were constitutionally deficient. As Navarette makes clear, the immunity defense should not be rejected if at the time that the act was committed there was no clearly established constitutional right and there was no malicious intention to deprive the plaintiff of a constitutional right or cause him other injury.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
How this case has been treated — in progress
Whether each later court followed, distinguished, criticized, or overruled this decision. The treatment classification (task #35) runs highest-cited cases first and lights up here as it reaches this one.